System features like security, availability and reliability, usually summarized under the concept of dependability, recently are receiving increasing attention due to the high complexity of modern systems. This imposes that specific requirements and explicit or tighter constraints have to be satisfied. However, with particular reference to reliability, there is a lack of suitable tools to prope...

500kV substation is especially important to the grid of our country, once it encounters lightning damage, the safety and reliability of the whole power system will be directly affected. As lightning intruding waves will cause overvoltage on electric equipments by intruding from the transmission line or straightly stroking the substation, which seriously influences the insulation level of equipm...

Original scientific paper After large scale blackout, there may be more than one black-start unit in power system. A rational subsystem partitioning restoration scheme could speed up the entire system restoration procedure and promote restoration reliability. In the paper, a subsystem partitioning strategy considering the restoration reliability is proposed. The calculation of nodes restoration...

This paper discusses a discrete event simulation model for the availability analysis of weapon systems. This model incorporates missions, operational tasks and system reliability structures to analyze the availability of a weapon system. The proposed simulation model consists of 5 modules: Simulation Engine, Maintenance Organizations, System, its Mission Profile and RBD which are based on missi...

in this paper, multi-microgrids (mmg) are considered as future smart distribution grids, in which small scale energy resources (sser) are main power generation units with small scales. optimal operation of microgrids in defined intervals is carried out to achieve economic conditions in distribution systems. the defined operating problem is optimized using a heuristic algorithm considering uncer...

A trend actually characterizing any technological and application field is the use of control and computing devices. This moves the attention of the insiders on the management of more complex processes and systems, modifying requirements, tasks and skills. In this scenario the dependability evaluation becomes strategic. The increasing complexity of systems requires a serious revision of the tec...